AS Applied Business for Edexcel Double Award - Table of Contents

Unit 1: Investigating people at work

  1. People and business - an introduction
  2. Business aims and objectives
  3. Types of business
  4. Business functions and structures
  5. Planning the workforce
  6. Recruitment and selection
  7. Employee training
  8. Employee performance and motivation
  9. External influences on the workplace

Unit 2: Investigating business

  1. Planning and managing a business
  2. Financing a new business
  3. Profitability and the profit & loss account
  4. Financial forecasting - break-even
  5. Liquidity and the balance sheet
  6. Financial forecasting - budgeting
  7. Financial forecasting - cash-flow forecasts
  8. Using ICT as a business resource

Unit 3: Investigating marketing

  1. Marketing objectives and customers
  2. Market research and marketing planning
  3. Marketing mix: product and price
  4. Marketing mix: promotion and place

Unit 4: Investigating electronic business

  1. The purpose and impact of a website
  2. Setting up a new website

Unit 5: Investigating customer service

  1. Customers and customer service
  2. Customer service - keeping the quality

Unit 6: Investigating promotion

  1. Promotional methods
  2. Promotion - constraints and evaluation

Unit 7: Investigating enterprise

  1. Launching an enterprise
  2. Running the company and winding it up
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